A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED HUNGARIAN ASH AND MARQUETRY CENTER TABLE

PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

细节

A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED HUNGARIAN ASH AND MARQUETRY CENTER TABLE
Probably 19th Century
The circular molded top decorated with fruitwood floral garlands and laurel wreaths, the border with laurel swags to the edge, above a plain frieze, on three scrolled winged lion-monopodiae supports mounted with palmettes and foliate scrolls, with lotus-leaves to the sides, on a concave-fronted triangular base with block feet, with pencil inscription 90
30¼in. (77cm.) high, 31½in. (80cm.) wide

拍品专文

This altar-tripod 'guéridon' relates to an 'antique' Roman table-pattern illustrated by Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine in their influential pattern-book, 'Receuil de Décorations Intérieures comprenant tout ce qui à un raport à l'ameublement, 1801, pl.3. Supported by chimerical Bacchic-lion monopodiae which again correspond to those of a desk illustrated by Percier (op.cit., pl.32), the table's distincitve 'bois clair' marquetry decoration pre-empts the fashionable style of the 1820's, but featured as early as 1807 in Pierre La Mesangère's Collection de Meubles et Objets de Goôut of 1807, pl.16.

The distinctive winged lion's or leopard's masks featured on this lot are a recurring motif in Russian furniture of this period. The supports of a fountain bowl made in Revna jasper and dated to 1813, display very similar masks with scrolled supports and paw feet, E.M. Effimova, Russian Stoneware in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 1961, fig. 68.